git 2.0.0 gc command destroys repositories

[Steven Levine]

This is somewhat related to #53.

There appears to be a problem in start_command() (run-command.c)which results in the stdin of the forked process not getting properly connected the stdout of the parent process.

In the case of git gc, this results in repack not receiving an object list on stdin and producing an empty pack file. The only recourse in this case is to restore the repo from a backup because the loose objects have been deleted.

[dmik]

At least with git 2.11.0 (the latest trunk) rebuilt against LIBCx 0.4 it works. My test case is as follows:

• create a repo
• commit a file
• re-commit it with --amend (to have a lost commit created)
• run git gc --prune

I'm not sure if it triggered your use case as it always says Nothing new to pack. So it's best if you provide a ZIP with the test repo that fails for you so that I could make sure it works (or not) with the latest git.

[dmik]

Steven, the new git RPM 2.11.0 is online. Please recheck this. Feel free to reopen If it still gives you any problem but please provide a ZIP with a test repo in such a case so that I could reproduce it.

[Steven Levine]

FTR, this works for me too after updating less to 4.81.